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Simple way to get to the bottom of this whole drone thing is ask the most powerful man on earth. Oh, you weren't listening.
Jack Armstrong
No, I. I didn't hear anything.
Joe Getty
Oh, okay. Well, that's disappointing. Where is it?
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I think one started and they all got everybody want to get in the deal.
Joe Getty
First of all, he's standing next to a helicopter in a Laundromat or something like that. That's Joe Biden. And he says there's a lot of legal drones up there and then a lot of copycats. Okay, that certainly helped the conversation about what they are and whether we should be working. Apparently he wasn't briefed on anything.
Jack Armstrong
I don't know why we're hearing from the former president. Yeah, I'm sorry, the control room is talking to me. What's that? He's the current president.
Joe Getty
So there's a poll sources. There's a poll out Emerson poll polling people on is it justifiable to murder health care CEOs in the street. And you wouldn't think you'd get very many people that say it's okay, but there's a big chunk, especially young people think it is. Okay, we'll get to that later too.
Jack Armstrong
Just shocking. So if you are just tuning in, first of all, welcome any joyous holiday season to you. Last year hour we were beginning to go over the House Oversight Committee's big Covid report, touching on it briefly and fairly swiftly. But we as a people can't just let it go. It is really quite. Well, I'll have a link. I'll send the link to the folks and we'll have it up@armstrongenghetti.com but last hour we went through the origin and the gain of function research, the utter just spewing of tax dollars to foreign mobsters and all the fraud and such. The who's absolute kowtowing to the Chinese communist line how the social distancing and mask mandates were utterly unsupport and did no good. House Committee continues lockdowns Prolonged lockdowns caused immeasurable harm to not only the American economy, but also to the mental and physical health of Americans with a particularly negative effect on younger citizens. Rather than prioritizing the protection of the most vulnerable populations, federal and state governments forced millions of Americans to forego crucial elements of healthy and financially sound life. Agreed. They get into some specifics in New York, the travel restrictions. COVID19 misinformation. Public health officials often spread misinformation through conflicting messaging, knee jerk reactions and a lack of transparency. In the most egregious examples of pervasive misinformation campaigns off label drug use and the lab leak theory were unjustly demonized by the federal government. And there's a subcategory of how the federal government worked with private social media to censor private citizens expressing their points of view, many of whom ended up being 100% correct.
Joe Getty
You know what will be lost to history though, in terms of analyzing all this is historians pointing out because Trump said it had a lot to do with many of these things. Yes, I'm against it. He's against that. I'm for it. Played such a huge role to the.
Jack Armstrong
Point of utter, bizarre, cruel absurdity. You're right, it was. It's. It will be difficult to convince people. No, no, in Europe, the schools were open, the private schools were open, and everybody was fine, but they kept the government schools closed. Why? Because Trump said they should open? Well, no, they had to have other evidence or, you know, signs or. No, no, no, no. Trump had a near magical power to compel people to do the opposite of what he said just because he said it's. And they'll think, oh, the old man's oversimplifying. Okay. They mentioned that the COVID 19 vaccine was highly successful and helped save millions of lives, but was rushed into commission without properly appraising the risks. The mandates were not supported by science, caused more harm than good. The Biden administration coerced healthy Americans into compliance with the COVID 19 vaccine mandates that trampled individual freedoms, harmed military readiness, and disregarded medical freedom to force a novel vaccine on millions of Americans without sufficient evidence to support their policies decisions. Then the utterly just, again, unforgivable ignoring of natural immunity.
Joe Getty
Yeah, that was just that weird enthusiasm for the vaccine as opposed to an enthusiasm for immunity, whether it was from the vaccine or natural, because you already had Covid.
Jack Armstrong
And they go into the fact that while the vaccine lessened the seriousness of many cases and did save many lives, it did not halt the spread at all, even though we were told over and over again that it would. And then once you got the jab, you could go back to normal life. Let's see, they get into the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic and associated government response on individuals, communities, small businesses, healthcare providers, states and local government entities. And as you might guess, the conclusion is it was utterly unnecessary. So much of it and terribly, terribly damaging. I'm reminded of Gavin Newsom, the utterly inevitable map to governor of California who made it clear that his only priority is preventing the spread and preventing death. And as we observed at the time and others did too. That's the opposite of leadership. Leadership weighs the pluses and minuses, the competing interests, the different needs that human beings have. And don't pretend with a like a cultish ferocity that there's only one thing to pay attention to. Utterly inexcusable. Then they get into the COVID 19 school closures. The science quote unquote. And I like how they used the quotes there never justified prolonged school closures. Children were unlikely to contribute to the spread of COVID 19 or suffer severe illness or mortality. Instead, as a result of school closures, children experienced historic learning loss, higher rates of psychological distress and decreased physical well being. And then they mentioned that the CDC actually ran their guidances through the American Federation of Teachers to provide specific language for the guidance.
Joe Getty
Yeah, nice.
Jack Armstrong
And the cdc, the Centers for Disease Control accepted numerous edits made by the powerful, powerful teachers union which couldn't give half a crap about your kid.
Joe Getty
That is true.
Jack Armstrong
That is the long and short of the Committee on Oversight and accountability report on COVID 19 response and we will post the link@armstrong getty.com the executive summary is a 1012 minute read and really really informative.
Joe Getty
What a dark chapter.
Jack Armstrong
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Joe Getty
Quick couple of things before we go to break. I don't know if you're following this. I'm not. Unbelievable internal pressure on Justin Trudeau to resign as Prime Minister of Canada right now. Some of his closest aides who've been with him his entire political career have quit and his approval rating is like 4% and he's done so we under.
Jack Armstrong
Appreciate how woke Justin Trudeau is in America. I happen to know a handful of Canadians that you can't shut them up because they hate him so much. But yeah, they went way down the woke road in Canada and he's been a miserable failure.
Joe Getty
NATO member. A couple NATO members said yesterday no one in Europe believes that peace can be achieved between Ukraine and Russia without territorial losses for Ukraine. That's the first time NATO leaders have officially said that out loud that the only way this is going to end is Ukraine giving up land. So let's save that one. One more here. Oh, did you see Prince Andrew like his closest aide who was Chinese Turned out to be a Chinese spy. Like a real serious big time Chinese spy. And well, another blow for Prince Andrew this one. I don't know how much time I want to spend on this. This is out of the school shooting the other day. How much more frequent murder is in the United States than other large high income countries. If you're going to compare, you know, similar lifestyles, homicides per hundred thousand, you just look at the graph where it's like, I mean there's, there's, you could add up, looks like you could add up Canada, Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Japan and not even come close to where we are.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, we're a very murdery country.
Joe Getty
Why is that do you think?
Jack Armstrong
Oh, there are a handful of reasons. I mean, give me, give me two length answer. Second amendment guns are much more readily available than in other places.
Joe Getty
And because guns, it's easy to kill people with guns.
Jack Armstrong
Oh, it's incredibly effective. Yeah. Yeah, you gotta work to kill somebody with, you know, other means. Really effective killing machine. Yeah. And I'm staunchly pro first amendment for what it's worth. The other thing is we have a. The vast majority of murders take place among subcultures of America in which it's considered appropriate to use deadly force over minor disputes including quote unquote, turf in neighborhoods.
Joe Getty
Yeah. If you have a break, a complete breakdown of the American family in certain segments of society and then the whole gang thing. Why don't they have that though in France, Great Britain, all these other places, Canada? Is it just the guns?
Jack Armstrong
Yeah. Again, it's pretty complicated. But it's worth pointing out that in say Placer County, California where I raised my kids, it's bristling with conservative redneck fools like myself who have lots and lots of guns and have fun shooting them and the rest of that. And we would all consider it absolutely unthinkable, abhorrent, just unspoken, unspeakable to use deadly violence to settle a minor dispute. It would just never ever happen. So it's, it's cultural. Nobody likes to talk about that because it's uncomfortable, because race factors into it indirectly. But that's, that's one of the big reasons fact that we murder each other.
Joe Getty
So much more than other countries should be talked about. More like in a, in a. Not quickly become worried somebody's going to take your guns away or quickly be worried on the other side. And something else because it's just a fact we have way more murders than other countries with similar lifestyles. What the heck.
Jack Armstrong
Well, and there's so many layers of hypocrisy and weirdness here because in a lot of European countries you're not allowed to have personal use of firearms or I don't know the laws country by country, but really hard to get a gun, really hard to own a gun. And if you get caught with a gun, you are in serious, serious trouble. I mean like say goodbye to your family for a long time trouble in the United States where we have one side of the political spectrum constantly saying we shouldn't have guns, we shouldn't have the second amendment, blah blah blah. They refuse to enforce gun laws because of their woke politics. So what the hell is going on, right? What are you to make of it, right?
Joe Getty
Speaking of murders, the CEO of United Healthcare was murdered in the street in New York and a lot of people think that was good, according to a new poll. We'll get to that among other things on the way.
Jack Armstrong
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No. I hope he's not a Jason Scumbag.
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I'm looking it over. Underage goats. Oh Lord, no. The details are not out yet and, but they don't matter anymore, right? Because he's no longer up for anything and he's going to go, he's going to go be a host of a TV show somewhere. So what?
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Here's something I've been meaning to talk about and I haven't heard anybody else bring it up. So it's possible it's unique to me, but I doubt it. You know, everybody agrees, I think that like our attention spans have changed from staring at smartphones. Heck yeah. And it's, it's amazing that my brain was a certain way until I was 47 and then smartphones came along and now reading a book is very, very difficult. I fully believe that having a self driving car, which most people do not yet, that I use regularly, I'll use it on the way to work today, I'll use it on the way home, trained your brain to not pay attention anymore. Oh, because my whole life driving a car, obviously you're paying attention. I mean, geez, you could die if you're not paying attention. But even in the three years I've had a self driving car, using it practically daily, my brain's gotten used to driving. Doesn't mean you gotta pay attention. And when I get into my truck that doesn't have self driving, I really regularly forget that I'm in charge of this thing. And I think that's why I had my motorcycle wreck. I think that's why I had my motorcycle wreck. I just, my brain is used to just like I used to be able to read and pay attention, you know, now it's like, do this instead. My brain driving means do something else, think about, do this, look around, read texts, whatever. And I think that's why I had my motorcycle wrecked.
Jack Armstrong
I have not had that experience at all, but intuitively that makes perfect sense to me. Sometimes when you get in your car, you don't have to pay attention at all. I know you're supposed to, but. And sometimes you have to every single second. And you know, I live in the world where there's no exception to the every single single second thing.
Joe Getty
Right?
Jack Armstrong
There's, yeah, I, I, that makes perfect sense to me.
Joe Getty
Yes, you are supposed to pay attention. There's no way they're going to be able to mandate people paying attention in the same way though if you've got a self driving car, it's just not possible.
Jack Armstrong
I find it nearly effortless to keep the car between the painted lines. So why am I using a self driving car if I have to pay attention as acutely as I do the rest of right?
Joe Getty
I've wondered that from the very beginning.
Jack Armstrong
You're not tired from steering?
Joe Getty
I've wondered that from the very beginning. I don't mind driving now, so why would I go self driving if I'm going to pay the same amount of attention with my hands on the steering wheel in the same spot? So it just defies human nature. But anyway, that frightens the hell out of me that I've trained my brain to not see driving as like a life and death situation for me and everybody else on the road.
Jack Armstrong
I'll bet between a year and two from now a big study comes out that confirms exactly what you just said. I think you nailed it. And I haven't heard anybody talking about that either. Visionary.
Joe Getty
I don't know if it's happening for other people, but I know for a fact this has happened to me that I have to remind myself, oh, that's right, I'm in my truck. It doesn't drive itself. She said. Scary.
Jack Armstrong
Wow.
Joe Getty
There's really no need for self driving car other than when you're in bad big city traffic. It is the greatest. It is the greatest in bad traffic. Just fantastic. You're just like you're sitting on your couch with whoever else is in the car, you know, talk and listening to music as it takes you along in the miserable traffic.
Jack Armstrong
Wow. Cool. So coming up this hour and perhaps next hour, the year in review, a lot of the big news stories that everybody paid attention to. It's both kind of informative and amusing to hear that list go by. Also the leading series on what's going on with the drones, rated for which is the most likely.
Joe Getty
And that poll on gunning down CEOs in the street, which is disturbing.
Jack Armstrong
Yikes. Armstrong and Getty.
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That's people chowning free chanting free Luigi outside of his jail. He's the murderous scumbag who killed this CEO from United Healthcare. And they also have signs that more CEOs need to die well, so there's a poll out today from Emerson College That's a real polling outfit. 41% of young people that would be under 30, 18 to 29 year olds. 41% of young people say it's at least somewhat acceptable to murder CEOs in the street. You have 24% that say it's somewhat. 17% say it's completely acceptable. So that's a little troubling.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, I would say so, but not shocking given the indoctrination that they've been under in their schools and high schools and colleges for the last several couple generations.
Joe Getty
Twice as many Democrats as Republicans, by the way. Probably fits in with your whole college theory since probably more went to. But anyway, so the pro murder party. Maybe the drones will fix all this. That's what we're hoping for, right? Somehow the drone invasion will.
Jack Armstrong
Our drone overlords.
Joe Getty
Here's something that amazes me that we're now, I don't know how many weeks into this. I was actually listening to a podcast yesterday. A New Jersey native said, hey, we've been talking about this in New Jersey for a lot longer than the rest of you have. So in New Jersey, they've been talking about it for like a month. The country's been talking about it for like two weeks. All the drones being spotted over New Jersey, here's the sitting U.S. senator, one of them from New Jersey, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand.
Jack Armstrong
I don't know if it's safe or not safe because we don't have full domain awareness. We don't know who's the drones are. We don't know whether they're adversarial or.
Joe Getty
Run by foreign entity. We don't know what their purpose is. We don't know if they're spying. So as of today, a US Senator from the state in question doesn't know if they're foreign, domestic, or a threat. Despite all the things that we're hearing from various people, I find that amazing.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, I was being critical of the idea of sharing sensitive intelligence with senators because some of them are lunkheads earlier. But the fact that she couldn't rule out any of those things, I mean, you'd think the military could have said, hey, super classified, what's happening? I'll tell you what's not happening is Chinese spies. Don't worry about that.
Joe Getty
Right.
Jack Armstrong
Couldn't check any of those boxes. It seems very strange. Right?
Joe Getty
What is going on with the communication? I have no idea.
Jack Armstrong
I don't.
Joe Getty
I don't even know what my working theory is right now.
Jack Armstrong
I don't either. And then the Amount of nutty stuff going on online. I refuse to use the term misinformation and it's cruel cousin disinformation. I just, I don't know why. Probably because it's like using the term fact check.
Joe Getty
Yeah.
Jack Armstrong
It's become so tainted with the dishonesty of the people who use those terms. I just, it makes me feel oogie to go there.
Joe Getty
Dishonesty or mishonesty.
Jack Armstrong
Right. Beautiful. Let's see. I want to hear, I need to hear one more thing. Yeah. This good example, this Mayor Mike Melam of some little town in New Jersey. 42 please. Michael. There was and there is an alert.
Joe Getty
That'S out right now that radioactive material.
Jack Armstrong
In New Jersey has gone missing.
Joe Getty
See, that's crazy that a month into this people are saying, yeah, there's nuclear material missing. Don't know anything about that. Or senator says, I don't know if they're foreign, domestic or if they're a threat. That's just not possible that this can be happening.
Jack Armstrong
Well, it's certainly not acceptable. Yeah. So. And then somebody in authority came out and said, no, no, no, no. There's no radioactive material missing from some medical lab. That's just not true.
Joe Getty
Well, let me say what I'm not. I'm not worried that. I'm not worried that it's Iran or China. I don't think it is. I agree with Trump. I think the Pentagon would know and do something about it. Of course you would have thought they'd have done something about the spy balloon from China that went clear across the country and they didn't do anything about it until some farmers said, hey, what the hell is that? And it made the news. But I'm mostly worried about bureaucratic breakdown and that sort of stuff in our government and what that means for the future than the drones themselves.
Jack Armstrong
Well, let me leap ahead a little bit in response to the whole medical waste or not and what you're saying. It's a note from Mikey Luke email mailbag@armstrongenghetti.com is the email address if you ever want to get in touch. Gentlemen, I have an easy answer to all the government related mysteries. Quote, unquote, works with any government related kerfuffle. It's almost like a Rosetta Stone thing. Mysterious drones flying over New Jersey. Hunter Biden, Lapt top Covid released from the lab in Wuhan. The assassination of jfk, the Russia hoax. Joe Biden is mentally fit and capable of winning the presidency. Answer to all of them. The government is to blame. They are covering it up. And they lied to you. It's not complicated. I wonder.
Joe Getty
So the lie to me for my own good. That's my concern. That's my concern that when the S hits the fan and China does attack or something like that, that will get the. I don't think they can handle this treatment that Fauci did with a lot of information and I don't like that. I hate that a lot.
Jack Armstrong
The whole team. And if you didn't hear our going over the House Oversight Committee report on the COVID thing, grab the podcast. It was hours one and two, Armstrong and Getty on demand. Anyway, having said that, yes, I agree completely. The condescension from particularly the left, but a lot of the people in power is, is just. You can't take it. So Madeline Kearns, who now writes for the Free Press and is Scottish and super smart and so cute with the leading theories on the drone thing and it's, it's long ish. And she doesn't come to any firm conclusions obviously, but the leading theories are the sightings are part of a mass hysteria. And as Michael Shermer, founder of Skeptic magazine, told the Free Press, these things happen as kind of a self generating social phenomenon where most people don't look up into the sky. They don't really think much about it till they hear stories start looking up and they start noticing things. And now we all have cell phones. The vast majority of these are obviously airplanes. You can see them when you blow them up. Big wings, small wings, blinking lights. Okay, here's my answer to that. I think what's going on with the drones is several things. And at the tail end of this, yes, it's that. It's exactly what Shermer was describing at the beginning of it though, with drones flying in what appeared to be an organized way near our military installations. That absolutely could be Chinese nationals in the United States doing the bidding of their communist overlords. There's a guy busted surveilling Vandenberg Space Base with drones. Busted on a flight back to his communist fathers recently. They're doing it now on the west coast, but it's unthinkable they do it on the East Coast. What, what are we even talking about here? It's happening.
Joe Getty
Well, it almost has to be something like that, because the fact that the DHS Secretary Mayorkas or the President or whoever hasn't come, come out and said it's all planes. We haven't come across one thing that we can confirm as a drone. We don't know about. Nobody has said that.
Jack Armstrong
Right. And actually, Maddie Kearns does point out that the lack of information and the weird vague stuff is just creating a vacuum into which nutty stuff flows. How perfect is this? There's an assembly woman in New York or New Jersey, rather, named Dawn Fantasia. She dancing tonight at the Bada Bing.
Joe Getty
Or an only fans page.
Jack Armstrong
Last Thursday, Fantasia told the Free Press that the foreign adversary theory was plausible. But like other lawmakers, she since shifted toward another explanation. Most people do believe these drones do belong to the US Military. However, beyond that point is very difficult. She says you literally need a magic eight ball to shake it to figure out what the actual purpose is. They quote a state senator. I believe some of them are drones controlled by the United States government and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But nobody's talking, so nobody's sure the sightings are drones belonging to a foreign adversary. And she gets into maybe, maybe not. Various quotes, but it varies across time. Again, which ones you're talking about, which sightings you're talking about. And what bothers me is everybody is picturing not what I was discussing about Vandenberg Air Force Base, but they're discussing like the Iranian mothership thing or that the Chinese navy leveled up a sub and then for surface to sub and then sent drones forth into the sky.
Joe Getty
Well, that crazy house rep actually said with certainty. I have talked to people at very high levels it is an Iranian mothership. I mean, he said it like he was. The fact he knew. Yeah, that didn't help anything.
Jack Armstrong
But again, it's so much more likely that A, it's the Chinese and B, they are using some of the tens, hundreds of of thousands of Chinese nationals who live in the United States, many of whom are official or unofficial intelligence agencies.
Joe Getty
Can you justify the government keeping it a secret from us that the Chinese have drones in the sky?
Jack Armstrong
Only if they. It's like the great lengths we went to most recently when we had human intel out of the Kremlin and we were extremely careful to couch everything in ways that would not make that clear. They're legendary examples from World War II. Yeah. So it's possible we have a capability or an intelligence source or something that I can't imagine how that would factor into the complete lack of information now vague everybody is.
Joe Getty
But it could because you've made the argument, and other people have too, about the Pentagon, darpa, whoever has different stuff that we don't know about and they test it all the time and they can't tell us about it. But there's got to be a limit to that, right? You. What if you had giant robot monsters that are 40ft tall walking across the country, you couldn't just. They couldn't just.
Jack Armstrong
Can they kill you with laser beams they shoot out of their eyes?
Joe Getty
We don't know what these things are because that would reveal. We have that program. I mean, there's got to be a limit on that, right?
Jack Armstrong
On terrifying people, giant Frankensteinian robot terrors roaming the landscape, eating school children. Yes, that would be too much. No, you're right. And even with drones and. And the sort of thing I've suggested is possible, to do it over a population center is a hell of a thing. And again, we have it from a very, very good source. Better than the New Jersey congressman with the mothership have it from a very good source that if there is something like that happening, the Pentagon or the CIA or whomever will get in touch with local law enforcement and say, hey, guys, we can't go into the details, but if you get calls about mysterious aircraft in the area Thursday night, it's us. Don't freak out.
Joe Getty
Right.
Jack Armstrong
We're happy to be of help.
Joe Getty
Right.
Jack Armstrong
For obvious reasons, you don't want information, vacuums, bizarro stories, and I don't see anybody panicking, but there's a fair amount of concern.
Joe Getty
Well, remember that clip from the governor of the current governor of New Jersey the other day saying this is our highest priority.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah.
Joe Getty
This is our highest priority as the governor of a state to figure out what these are.
Jack Armstrong
How's he doing on that? I haven't earned it.
Joe Getty
But how does the federal, not government, not somehow give a wink and a nod to the governor of the state and say, trust us, it's okay. So he's not going around saying that.
Jack Armstrong
You know, let's. Let's listen to a reporter talking to a major general who did a Tuesday briefing. Major General Ryder. He said they're unequivocally not the Department of Defense, as far as he knows, throws that in at the end. How about. What about the drones flying over the military bases? 35. Michael, what about the ones that are flying over military bases at this point?
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Have there been any possibilities of collecting what sort of information these drones are.
Joe Getty
Doing or anything like that? Yeah. Again, just to kind of put this into context, and I know that our colleagues at the White House, faa, dhs, FBI have all made this point. So over a million drones registered in the United States, and on any given day, approximately 8,500 drones are, you know, in flight. And so the Vast majority of these drones are going to probably be recreational or hobbyist. They're going to be commercial drones, you know, used in things like architecture, engineering, farming, or they could be used for law enforcement. Is it possible that some of those drones could be up to malign activity? It's entirely possible. But the vast majority, that is not, you know, the case.
Jack Armstrong
All right. My talents are very modest. I play guitar like I have hooves. I sing like an angry mule. Oh please. I can't begin to dance. My athletic stardom is 35 years in the rearview mirror. On the other hand, I am a world class BSer and you should never BS a BSR. That was a non answer. What about the drones near the military bases? Well, that's it. First of all, I'm going to list six federal agencies. Next, I'm going to throw out a bunch of statistics about drones in the United States. There are over 1 million registered drones in the United States of America. At any given moment, 8,500 of them are in the. Why? That's fascinating. I've forgotten completely about the question I just asked you. Come on, answer that question.
Joe Getty
Something weird is going on. I just don't know which brand of weird it is.
Jack Armstrong
But he got to the end and said, is it possible some of them are up to malign purposes? Yes. How about the ones I just asked you about there, right? Stars and bars or you know, medals and hats. Things are getting weird and they're getting weird fast.
Joe Getty
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Some more business news. Walmart announced that some of their employees.
Joe Getty
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, it's a fun way to remind customers, hey, a lot of crazy shiz.
Joe Getty
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Jack Armstrong
Of course the Walmart greeters are so old the cameras will be shooting up.
Joe Getty
Their nose the whole time.
Jack Armstrong
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Joe Getty
I wouldn't worry about that though. The fact that Walmart has existed for how many decades without locking up all the products and then now has to lock them up and didn't have cameras on their greeters and now has to have cameras. I I wouldn't worry that civilization is falling apart or anything. Just normal course of events. Events speaking normal Courses, events. Oh, first, this couple of NBA notes. One cultural one about the game. The NBA all star game is ridiculous and has been for a very long time. And they've been trying to come up with a way to make it not ridiculous. Here's their new idea for 2025. The NBA All Star Game will now be a 143 game tournament. The league announces with different all stars playing each other to try to see who's the best team. So we'll see.
Jack Armstrong
So quadruple as many games where they don't try. Okay.
Joe Getty
Friend of the Armstrong and Getty show who was at works in sports sent me a video and this text last night working the NBA cup in Vegas. Here's a snapshot of young American culture. Only one player showing respect during the anthem. My coach. He was a college basketball player. This guy, my coach would have had us had the entire team running suicides the following practice had the only one of us not stood up straight for the 62nd anthem. That's the Houston Rockets in this video. Same level of respect with Atlanta, Oklahoma City and Milwaukee. Another cultural decay thing that nobody seems to care about. Nice.
Jack Armstrong
I like your question. Has there ever been a society before that tried this experiment of teaching self loathing to their children systematically? I mean a successful society, a society that's pioneered human rights around the globe. I mean that holds sacred the right to free speech and trial by jury and all the rest of it teaches its kids. Oh no, no no. It's actually a farce for evil. I don't know, it's sickening. Speaking of basketball, got some great emails on the ridiculous, laughable Caitlin Clark controversy in the wnba. We can touch on those next hour. I mean really good insights. And also the year in review. The big news stories of the year will glance back and think how the hell was anybody worried about that?
Joe Getty
Well, the election and everything that went on is obviously one of the biggest stories of the century. Oh my God, Joe Biden.
Jack Armstrong
He's fine. To run again on an assassination.
Joe Getty
A couple assassination attempts. My God.
Jack Armstrong
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Podcast Summary: Armstrong & Getty On Demand – "That Makes Me Feel Oogy"
Podcast Information:
In the episode titled "That Makes Me Feel Oogy," hosts Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty dive deep into a range of pressing societal issues, blending sharp commentary with engaging discussions. Skipping over advertisements and non-content segments, the duo focuses on dissecting governmental responses, societal violence, emerging technological concerns, and cultural shifts impacting modern America.
Jack and Joe open with a critical analysis of the U.S. government's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, referencing the House Oversight Committee's comprehensive report.
Lockdowns and Economic Impact:
Vaccine Mandates:
Misinformation and Government Transparency:
Schools and Children:
The discussion shifts to alarming trends in societal violence, particularly focusing on the disturbing poll results regarding attitudes toward murdering CEOs.
Poll on Acceptability of Murdering CEOs:
Gun Laws and Cultural Factors:
A major segment of the episode focuses on recent unexplained drone sightings over New Jersey, sparking debates about national security and foreign interference.
Drone Activity Over New Jersey:
Speculations on Foreign Adversaries:
Government Communication Breakdown:
Jack and Joe delve into the implications of emerging technologies, particularly self-driving cars, on human behavior and safety.
Self-Driving Cars and Attention Deficits:
Public Safety and Technological Trust:
The episode transitions to discussions on cultural changes and their manifestations in various societal facets.
NBA All-Star Game Format Changes:
Respect and Social Conduct:
Wrapping up the episode, Armstrong and Getty tease upcoming segments and continue to emphasize the overarching themes of governmental inefficiency, societal violence, and technological impacts.
Year in Review and Future Discussions:
Final Thoughts on Government and Public Trust:
Jack Armstrong (03:00): "Prolonged lockdowns caused immeasurable harm to not only the American economy but also to the mental and physical health of Americans, especially the younger citizens."
Joe Getty (26:39): "41% of young people aged 18 to 29 say it's at least somewhat acceptable to murder CEOs in the street."
Joe Getty (38:07): "Senator Kirsten Gillibrand couldn't rule out whether the drones are foreign, domestic, or a threat."
Jack Armstrong (27:19): "It's troubling, but not shocking given the indoctrination they've been under in their schools and colleges."
Joe Getty (19:40): "Using a self-driving car has trained my brain to not pay attention, leading to distracted driving and accidents."
Government Critique: The hosts vehemently criticize the U.S. government's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, highlighting failures in policy-making, communication, and prioritization of individual freedoms.
Societal Violence: Alarming trends in public sentiment towards violence, especially among younger demographics, are discussed, with a focus on cultural and legislative factors contributing to high murder rates.
National Security Concerns: Unexplained drone sightings raise questions about national security, foreign interference, and the effectiveness of governmental responses in addressing potential threats.
Technological Impacts: The advent of self-driving cars is scrutinized for its unintended consequences on human attention spans and driving safety, emphasizing the need for balanced technological integration.
Cultural Shifts: Changes in societal norms and values, as evidenced by alterations in major sports events and declining public respect, are viewed as indicators of broader cultural decay.
Conclusion: In "That Makes Me Feel Oogy," Armstrong and Getty deliver a thought-provoking episode that challenges listeners to reflect on governmental accountability, societal violence, emerging technological threats, and the erosion of cultural values. Through incisive commentary and compelling discussions, the hosts shed light on critical issues shaping contemporary America, urging a reevaluation of priorities and policies to foster a more informed and resilient society.